[MBBlat]

shep1001]roningMan said:

Good effort - I see your box cat and raise you waste bin cat. She was asleep in the bin but the flash woke her up.

One of my two in the bin

For some cats one bin at a time is just not enough

[jimmyjimjim]

zygalski said:

Yep, I'm on my second office chair due to similar catting.

[leafspring]

Ginger...



Only just sat down an whump he lands, cooking fat

[Mobile Chicane]

Heavens.

Bob's just brought in a rabbit. After playing with the poor bugger for ages, he's finally killed it.

(Sorry no pics it's too dark in here.)

I keep telling him "You can't eat anything bigger than your head", but by 'eck he's chomping through it!

[otolith]

Bob must be feeling overwhelmed by his own awesomeness. He will have even more smugness than is normal for cats.

[Mobile Chicane]

Bob's looking pretty stuffed.

He's left the hind legs for me - how awesome is that?

We're a team, Bob and I. The Witch, and her Familiar.

[Dan_1981]

How do you educate a cat????

One of ours (4 year old male) has started getting up at an ungodly hour and pawing and scratching at the door and meowing loudly to be given attention / fed / let out / find out he's had an impact. (He's got food available and often doesn't decide to go out)

He's chosen 4.55 every morning to do this.

This is annoying as my alarm goes off at 5:30 so i'm losing half an hours kip per day.

So how do I stop him doing this?????

[Munter]

Dan_1981 said:

How do you educate a cat????

One of ours (4 year old male) has started getting up at an ungodly hour and pawing and scratching at the door and meowing loudly to be given attention / fed / let out / find out he's had an impact. (He's got food available and often doesn't decide to go out)

He's chosen 4.55 every morning to do this.

This is annoying as my alarm goes off at 5:30 so i'm losing half an hours kip per day.

So how do I stop him doing this?????

If our cat is anything to go by. Leave the door open. Then every time he climbs on the bed kick him off. He'll get bored of that and settle on the corner of the room, and eventually just does that rather than climbing on the bed.

Or you could try a INNOTEK SSSCAT which puffs air at them as they make to go past it. So put that by the door and it could deter the cat from being there.

[yellowjack]

Neighbours cat needs a collar and a bloody big bell!









This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of very many reasons why us non-cat owning types really don't share your love of the feral, wildlife-destroying beasties.

Now I'm no big fan of Woodies, neither, so I wouldn't mind if it were just the cumbersome grey lumps that he caught and killed, but I, and my wife have both had to collect and dispose of a surprisingly large number of deceased garden birds, frogs and toads from our garden. If the images above upset you - good! My wife gets very upset when small birds are decimated in our garden too. Just buy the bloody beast a bell, and make it wear the damned thing.

[RobbieKB]

You can put a cowbell round their necks, they will still invariably catch wildlife.

[lenats31]

yellowjack said:

Neighbours cat needs a collar and a bloody big bell!









This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of very many reasons why us non-cat owning types really don't share your love of the feral, wildlife-destroying beasties.

Now I'm no big fan of Woodies, neither, so I wouldn't mind if it were just the cumbersome grey lumps that he caught and killed, but I, and my wife have both had to collect and dispose of a surprisingly large number of deceased garden birds, frogs and toads from our garden. If the images above upset you - good! My wife gets very upset when small birds are decimated in our garden too. Just buy the bloody beast a bell, and make it wear the damned thing.

Imagine wearing a bell around your neck 24-7, having a hearing that is 7 times better than normal human hearing and no peace

Edited by lenats31 on Wednesday 9th April 18:50

Edited by lenats31 on Wednesday 9th April 18:53

[otolith]

yellowjack said:

If the images above upset you

I was thinking more along the lines of "nice one!".

The RSPB doesn't think cats have a significant impact on garden bird populations. As far as amphibians go, loss of habitat is far more of a problem. I wish our cats wouldn't kill slow worms, but after five years we still have them in our garden so their impact can't be all that great.

[lenats31]

We have 4 cats. They used to run free. After we lost one to unknown destiny, and to keep neighbour´s stupid cat that hates two of our cats off our premises. We keep ours in an enclosed garden -it can be done. That way, they wont annoy neighbours. They seem happy with that.

[Negative Creep]

Anyone got some tips for getting cat vomit out of a carpet? Had 2 attempts at removing the stain from last night's "accident" using Vanish carpet cleaner but no joy.

[richtea78]

Bissel Carpet foam worked for me

[Mobile Chicane]

yellowjack said:

Neighbours cat needs a collar and a bloody big bell!









This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of very many reasons why us non-cat owning types really don't share your love of the feral, wildlife-destroying beasties.

Now I'm no big fan of Woodies, neither, so I wouldn't mind if it were just the cumbersome grey lumps that he caught and killed, but I, and my wife have both had to collect and dispose of a surprisingly large number of deceased garden birds, frogs and toads from our garden. If the images above upset you - good! My wife gets very upset when small birds are decimated in our garden too. Just buy the bloody beast a bell, and make it wear the damned thing.

Wood pigeons are considered pests and can be legitimately shot all year round.

The cat has done the environment a favour by not discharging lead into the atmosphere.

[motco]

As car owners, I suspect we kill a fair number of birds on the roads but, unlike our moggies, we don't do them the courtesy of eating them!

[yellowjack]

motco said:

As car owners, I suspect we kill a fair number of birds on the roads but, unlike our moggies, we don't do them the courtesy of eating them!

Hmmm

Cars seem to be an essential element of modern life. If they weren't essential, someone would find a way to ban them.

Cats, however, are a selfish luxury item, kept in their trillions by some obsessed owners. And the garden birds I've scooped up off the lawn seldom look very 'eaten' to me. At least if I hit a bird in my car, I have the decency to feel guilty over it. How many "moggies" do you know which might even understand the concept of guilt? Nope. Thought not. Murdering furballs

On the subject of killing animals on roads, I recall a home made sign I cycled past in rural Suffolk, on a well sighted section of NSL single carriageway, imploring drivers to "Slow down! Cats cross this road!" More locally, in Farnborough, there were signs up on lampposts begging for help in identifying the 'reckless' driver who ran over someone's cat. Now there's a damned good reason why hitting a cat is a non-reportable accident, unlike hitting livestock, or a dog. That's because there is a legal responsibility on owners of dogs and livestock to keep control of their animals. Cat owners in general seem quite happy to allow their animals out to roam freely, stting in my flower beds, clawing the roof of my car, and generally decimating local bird life (four neighbouring houses have between them eight cats), yet if poor Tiddles gets squished all over the Jct 4A bypass, apparently the driver is 'despicable'. The fact is, if cat owners are unwilling to take control of the activities of their pets, don't expect legal protection when the puss commits Harakiri on a busy highway. It's a reasonable trade off.

[singlecoil]

yellowjack said:

Stuff about cats and their owners

This isn't really the thread for you.

[otolith]

Maybe the thread for people who like cats is a bad place to come and moan about cats?